Software Test Engineer (IoT Security)

Company Description

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

Our Approach to Work

We lead with flexibility and choice in all of our people programs. We have disrupted the traditional view that all employees have the same needs and wants. We offer personalization and offer our employees the opportunity to choose what works best for them as often as possible - from your wellbeing support to your growth and development, and beyond!

At Palo Alto Networks, we believe in the power of collaboration and value in-person interactions. This is why our employees generally work from the office three days per week, leaving two days for choice and flexibility to work where you feel most effective. This setup fosters casual conversations, problem-solving, and trusted relationships. While details may evolve, our goal is to create an environment where innovation thrives, with office-based teams coming together three days a week to collaborate and thrive, together!

Job Description

Your Career

Palo Alto Network’s IoT Security team is looking for a Software test engineer with experience in IoT Security testing and automation to fill a technical position. You will be part of a world-class software QA engineering team that works on various ground-breaking IoT security products, 

As a Software Quality Assurance Engineer, you will build, automate, and run functional testing scenarios for our products in virtualized elements. You are driven by your desire to get hands-on experience with a wide variety of API and UI testing. You'll work closely with our development and product management teams, testing and presenting the results to identify new approaches. You will participate in design discussions and help make a difference in developing the future direction of our software.

You will drive the efficiency and reliability of our products by testing them thoroughly to understand potential risks, bugs, or issues, providing an exemplary product experience for our end users. You strive for the best in everything you do—meaning you won’t rest until the products you work on are of the highest quality. You love hunting for problems within the code, seeking issues to correct, and enjoy the challenge of a code-based scavenger hunt that includes testing, providing feedback, and identifying alternative suggestions for our product’s environment.

Your Impact

• Develop and execute software test cases & test plans to verify IoT security functionality, Performance & Customer Solution conformance while working & interacting closely with Product Management, and Software Development
• Participate in feature review so that Quality Assurance is considered throughout the entire lifecycle of the IoT Feature Development 
• Develop and/or Enhance Automated test cases to increase overall test coverage
• Enhance Test strategies, Automation with feedback and analysis from real-world Customer deployments

Qualifications

Your Experience

• 3 + years of relevant experience, with a BS or MS degree or equivalent military experience required
• Experience with API/UI Automation using Python and Python with Selenium respectively
• Demonstrated ability to learn quickly and to work in a fast-paced, innovative environment learning new technologies
• Experience with API/UI testing with distributed system 
• Experience with writing test cases, test plans and filing defects when features are not working as expected
• Expert level Experience with REST API testing driven Automation using Python
• Knowledge of OT security testing is a plus
• Experience with Linux or Esxi Virtualization or Docker/Kubernetes is a plus
• Experience with Cloud Technologies such as AWS is a plus
• Experience with  basic Networking

Additional Information

The Team

To stay ahead of the curve, it’s critical to know where the curve is, and how to anticipate the changes we’re facing. For the fastest growing cybersecurity company, the curve is the evolution of cyberattacks, and the products and services that proactively address them. Our engineering team is at the core of our products – connected directly to the mission of preventing cyberattacks. They are constantly innovating – challenging the way we, and the industry, think about cybersecurity. These engineers aren’t shy about